Replication Package for BPEA Paper “Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis”

This is the replication package for BPEA paper “Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis” by Alexander W. Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin, Jesse Rothstein, Matthew Unrath.

The package includes all scripts and non-proprietary data used to generate the results in the paper.

Directory Structure

Directory	Description
code_function/	Some general functions called by other scripts.
code_data/	Scripts that read in and clean raw data.
code/	Scripts that generate tables and figures in the BPEA paper.
logs/	Log files. Log files that may reveal information about small cells in proprietary data are excluded.
data_raw/	Raw data files. Proprietary data are not included (e.g. Homebase and SafeGraph data).
data_clean/	Processed data files. Proprietary data are not included (e.g. Homebase and SafeGraph data).
results/	Figures and tables in the BPEA paper.
scratch/	Scratch space.